William Nyirenda (right) briefing the Minister of Commerce Trade and
Industry Margaret Mwanakatwe (centre) and Central Province Minister
Davies Chisopa how PACRA operates during the official launch of a new
PACRA office in Kabwe
The Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry has raised K333 million to implement industrial yards in eighty provinces of the Country under the Skills Development and Entrepreneurship project.
The project which is supported by the African Development Bank and whose funding was approved by Cabinet on the 15th of February this is year is meant for women and youths.
Commerce Trade and Industry Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe
And Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe has disclosed at a media briefing held in Lusaka this afternoon that Mansa, Kasama, Solwezi, Chipata, Mongu, Lusaka , Kitwe and Ndola will be the Districts where the construction and operationalisation of industrial yards will be done.
Ms. Mwanakatwe says part of the raised K333 million will also used for intensifying commercialization of cassava in 5 provinces.
She says this is besides strengthening Business Development Services (BDS) in all provinces as well as strengthening Youth Development Centres.
Ms. Mwanakatwe has told journalists that this will be a transformational programme that will create 16, 000 jobs this year.
She says through industrial yards alone a total of 4,000 direct sustainable jobs will be created.
If Bo Inonge is stepping down, only two viable choices remain for the President’s Running Mate this year. Dr. Kaseba and Mrs. Mwanatakwe. These are two of the smartest women among the smart people of the Zambian Enterprise … they both have my endorsement!!!
God Speed …
Dr Kaseba and Mrs. Mwanakatwe being some of the smartest women in Zambia? My foot! Whatever you smoke is very strong!
Mrs mwanakatwe has presided over a period that sees doing any bussiness the most expensive. Manufactures find it cheaper to import anything from our neighbours than have them made in Zambia. Also I don’t see nothing special about the subject matter, anyone can do that with borrowed money…
@P Kazhila:
Do you have these two women’s CVs or would you want me to post them here for you and see if you personally can match theirs? These two are well accomplished women some of you guys and gals are just simply intimidated by them.
Let me know if you want me to publish their accomplishments, you are free to publish yours and then we will contrast and compare. So, let’s get started … your next post should include your CV and then I will start with Dr. Kaseba, we contrast and compare with yours, then we move to Mrs. Mwanakatwe.
I will be waiting pal … let’s put your money where your mouth is. Thanks a trillion
All of Mwanakatwe’s jobs are just handed to her. She never succeeds though! Barclays?! Her stay in Ghana was full of scandals of her and her usual adulterous behavior. We all know how she got her current position!
@Trivia:
That’s just an excuse … and even if she had jobs handed to her, she performed with distinctions – my first executive job at Citigroup USA was really just handed over to me. But you know what I turned a $780MM portfolio into a $2.3 Billion by the time I left.
You cannot for the life of me show me itemized failures at all. Next point, why go personal all the time and denigrate her character personally. By the way, nothing gets handed to you if the benefactors don’t believe in you!!
Did you catch her in the act? For all you know I have slept with all women in the entire world and you would buy that story. Stop the BS and face facts, the woman is smart and she has excelled at her appointments.
This is not a personal attack on you MR!!! We have read your opinion, you do not need to keep defending it. We have also aired ours, so let it rest. You will not change my view of Mwanakatwe whom I have known for many years. By the way she did not succeed anywhere except in your eyes! Please move on.
@@Trivia:
Who is we? And no, we can’t move on with hypotheticals without facts, that one way we ended up killing our continent. No fact based debates, as long as @@Trivia says it, it becomes gospel.
I insist … please specifically itemize her failures! I will be waiting for you, pal … thanks a trillion.
@B R Mumba, I am disappointed with your choice of most qualified to be Veep! Both women come with a lot of baggage: One having been a girlfriend for a former president for a long time! The other having been a concubine for ages before she became the first wife! Brother B R Mumba your judgment staggers me because we seem to have lost the moral high ground as a nation! Even mediocrity is lauded
1) Has Mrs Mwanakatwe paid her loan from CEEC? 2) What criteria was used to select her as suitable recipient of those loans? 3) Even after being exposed this woman still has no shame in settling the loans that where intended for disadvantaged citizens why has CEEC not repossessed any of her properties they way they have done with many ordinary citizens who owe CEEC. 4 Based on your answer to question 1, 2 and 3 is that how she qualifies to be “smart” any thief can do that
Nepotism with both “smartest women”; that’s not what Zambia wants at this juncture!
Margret who are you fooling by stating that you have raised the funds ….when this is a loan approved by your silly cabinet last week…you have no shame that you can not plan from your own resources at the start of a financial year. You had not planned for this..simply vote buying and wasting funds.
Truly laughable she says that they have raised the funds when this is another loan from ADB approved by her dull cabinet just last week…Margret haven’t you got no shame that you can not raise anything from your own resources? Margret when did you plan for this…you have no shame you are putting your children’s children in debt so you can vote buy with these selfsame ill thought out schemes.
Anyway this woman has no shame when it comes to loans as evidenced by the CEEC loans…don’t be surprised if one of their family business are benefactors of this Entrepreneurship project.
Mrs mwanakatwe, Zambia remains one of the most expensive places for doing bussiness. The other day she was officiating the opening of a cosmetic shop in manda hill, is that the investment you are bringing?? the country needs factories not shops. You have failed to bring even one manufacturing or assembly plant to Zambia despite your experience. All that with the fact that we still import everything leaves me wondering what work you do.
16,000 jobs! What a big. Anyway we the voters cannot buy into your lies as vividly remember the 90 days.